Very Strange Dream

Somehow I ended up in New York City. I was walking the streets asking where to go but nobody could help me. At one point I was crossing a bridge but the water was so high that I ended up walking in the murky, black water. I was also on my cell phone talking to Elizabeth Forel about being lost in NYC and something about wanting to see these carriage horses she was protesting against. The line became disconnected and I never bothered to call her back. I remember it being 2 in the Afternoon and I was shocked she was home from work. I got on a bus where the driver was wearing a fuzzy fur hat (I think). I whispered to him that I wanted to get to Central Park. There was also an exchange with a cute boy sitting behind me on the bus but I can't remember what was said. The bus circled around as the driver told me I had the wrong bus and while the bus was moving, I grabbed a pole outside the bus door and twirled off the bus very gracefully. The driver said something about how fancy I was and took the bus left. I FB updated my status to say, "I'm in NYC and no one knows where Central Park is."

I eventually ended up in a tunnel with an old friend Ryan Fojo. He guided me through the tunnels and showed me a drawing of NYC on a chalkboard. There was a square that he moved on the board to the far upper right hand corner of the board and said, "This is where you need to be." The opening of the tunnel was similar to that of the one at Oak Street Beach where all of a sudden you can see the tall buildings and it is really pretty. Except this seemed to be the Upper East Side of NYC where the buildings are all residential and they meet the park. I wouldn't know for sure as I've never seen that part of NYC. I became excited and saw a line of carriage horses. I approached one girl with very red hair and a white horse who had the body shape of Dante, an old horse in Chicago. The girl was crazy. She was eating waffle fries with ketchup and was talking so fast about how, and I'm going to ramble here and make no sense as she didn't make sense in my dream, "I spent money so he could eat and then they couldn't eat and then the next day I had money so I ate and I never should have picked up the phone." She had a metal push cart with several white pigeons who looked like big ducks but they were pigeons. She was tossing (and missing the cart) waffle fries. I kept picking them up and putting them on the cart for the birds to eat. She started walking her horse and carriage by hand when in front of us, the other carriages were headed up a steep hill. They were being told to do so by the police. The girl said, "This must be political." I said something to her about how the hill was so steep and the carriage was too heavy for the horse to pull up the hill. I remember seeing the carriage in front of her nearly tipping and the horse struggling to pull it up the hill. It was a Landau carriage. White with lots of glass windows.

WTF??